Cocktail Power Hour

(From top left, Tinsel Bellini, The Cointreau Tesse, Lillypad, and The Warhol Crush.)

{Me and the girls like to play around with cocktail recipes, I think it's so fun to get everyone together and start mixing. Start by getting your usual suspects (gin, vodka, rum, tequila ext.) then get all the basic additives, think (cranberry juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice, lime juice ext.) add some fun decorative items such as (cherries, orange slices, lemon or lime rings, gummy bears, flavored sugars or salts for the rim, ext.) Here are a few that we may just have to test out, or add too! As you can tell it's been a long day at the office if I'm researching drink recipes. But hey, a girl can dream.}


Tinsel Bellini

2 oz HPNOTIQ
1 oz Limoncello
1 oz Champagne
Splash of lime juice
Rim the Champagne Flute with a light coat of sugar. Pour chilled HPNOTIQ, Limoncello and Champagne into the champagne flute. Add a splash of lime juice.


The Cointreau Teese

Dita von Teese's cocktail is a bold cocktail featuring Cointreau as well as Monin violet syrup
1 1/2 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz Apple juice
1/2 oz Monin violet syrup
1/2 oz Fresh lemon juice
Frost ginger around the rim of the glass.


Lillypad

1 1/2 oz Milagro Silver Tequila
1/2 oz Lillet Blanc
1/2 oz Lillet Rouge
1 1/2 oz Apple Juice
1/4 oz agave nectar
1/4 oz fresh lime juiceCombine ingredients and shake well. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Garnish with a blood orange wheel


Warhol Crush

12 fresh rosemary sprig
6 Fresh raspberries
.75 oz Simple syrup
1.5 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso Vermouth
2 oz Cranberry juice
Muddle rosemary, raspberries and simple syrup in a mixing glass. Fill halfway with ice and add vermouth and cranberry juice. Shake 8-10 times. Double strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with raspberries speared by a rosemary sprig.